Three Weeks

"Only three weeks old? Wow, you really are a new mother!"

That wasn't true, though the lady at the grocery store had no idea. Every time someone made a comment about her newly acquired motherhood, whether it be a stranger or not, a pang of guilt ripped through her entire body.

In actuality, she had become a mother roughly six years ago, when a dark-haired, blue-eyed, baby boy entered the world.